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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 4/7/2012 12:08 PM, Miguel Angel Ajo Pelayo wrote:
> 
>     During the last two days I had some hours to spend on scripting
> again, I've been able
> to fix some memory management problems (objects added to a board or
> module get deleted
> by board/module object, but python tried to delete them too, now that
> condition is detected
> and avoided  - .thisown=0 in python during (board/module).Add(object)
> did the work-.
> 
>     Now we have wxRect and wxSize wrappers, that were missing.
> 
> 
>     I find some important points that I must address (prioritized list):
> 
>      a) May be working in the KICAD_PLUGIN part for component libraries,
> to move the librairi.cpp 
> code into plugin system.  There's already some design about that?  [I'm
> writing a separate email about this]
> 
>         This is very very interesting: we cleanup kicad's code (as it's
> planned), and would offer many
> benefits: ability to create footprint wizards, making automated
> component servers/libraries, etc...
> 
>      b) I should start documenting somewhere how to work with scripting.
> Where's
> the right place? http://kicad.sourceforge.net/wiki/Main_Page ? , or may
> be other place?

Miguel,

If this document is only interesting to developers, it may make sense to
put is somewhere in the source repo in the Documentation folder.  If
this is something that end users may be interested then the appropriate
place would be the user documentation at
https://code.launchpad.net/~kicad-developers/kicad/doc.  This is where
the file format documentation currently lives.  Either way, the document
would be under version control which is a good thing.

Wayne

> 
>     
>       c) Hook points for scripting inside kicad UI:
>             c.1) Dynamic toolbar + hotkey assignment for registered plugins
>             c.2) Footprint wizards list, where plugins could be registered.
>             c.3) Contextual menu plugins (they could registered, and
> when you right click on some object, they check if they should
>                    offer their functionality in the list)
>             c.4) Scripted DRC plugins
>             
>          
>      
> 
> 
> 
>    
> 
> 
> 
> 2012/3/20 Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:stambaughw@xxxxxxxxxxx>>
> 
>     On 3/18/2012 8:24 PM, Wolfgang Spraul wrote:
>     >> But just like the command line argument patch that came in 2
>     >> months ago, there will be a better time to merge this all in.
>     >
>     > Quick note from the guy who wrote most of the command line patch:
>     > I saw the scripting patch and I agree with Dick that this is super
>     > important and great work! Well done scripting can probably replace
>     > the need for command line options.
>     >
>     > I will continue to maintain the command-line patches out-of-tree
>     > and uplevel 'every few months'. But scripting is definitely the
>     > better approach and I'm very happy to see it moving forward.
>     >
>     > It is in our shared interest to keep the KiCad codebase readable
>     > maintainable.
> 
>     Wolfgang,
> 
>     Thank you for being patient and understanding the importance of keeping
>     the code base readable and maintainable.  KiCad is a large project and
>     as it continues to grow, the importance of code maintenance cannot be
>     under estimated.  I wish I could commit more time to the project to
>     speed this process along.  For now, we'll have to make due.
> 
>     Thanks,
> 
>     Wayne
> 
>     > Cheers,
>     > Wolfgang
>     >
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